Does a search for *.p2p find location of all the wongly-deleted fi

Someone posted the idea that searching a complete auto-sync'd fileset for
files named *.p2p would find all the homes for files that had been wrongly
moved to FolderShare trash.

FolderShare team, is this correct? Or to put it in the most important way,
if I search my disk for files *.p2p and find none, does this guarantee that I
have not had any wrong deletions caused by the bug?

We think it works, but we can't say yes with a 100% certainty that it will
find all of your files, so look closely at your Trash.

For my 200gigs of data in FS Libraries, I was able to use searching for .p2p
files to do the recovery. I am double checking my Trash now to see if
anything was missed.

Thanks again for your patience with us.
-m


"Robert Gaskins" wrote:

Mohammed,

Thanks for the precise response. If this does prove out, it could be an
invaluable help in (1) ruling out damage by the bug and (2) in cases where
damage has occurred, finding out how to restore thousands of files to their
correct homes in tens of thousands of folders (which latter task is almost
impossible "by eye").

Any further information on this technique will be most appreciated.

Robert Gaskins

"Mohammed Samji [MSFT]" wrote:

We feel very comfortable having people search for .p2p files in any folder
where auto-sync was enabled to find files that were accidently moved to the
Trash.

We've done testing over the past few days, and this seems to find the files
in question.

The other trick you can do is logon to the www.foldershare.com website and
look at the summary of your libraries. If you have libraries that were
configured for automatic sync and you are seeing file counts that are not
complete such as 25 / 30, then there is a good chance that the folder was
impacted and you need to restore some files from the trash. 5 in this
example.

If the folder is reporting all files are there, for example 30 / 30. You are
in good shape and all files were auto-recovered by the system or by you
manually.

We will continue to post updates as we understand last weeks issue in more
detail.

-Mohammed

"Robert Gaskins" <RobertGaskins@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B7EC977D-1215-48D9-B68F-BAA0CA9E2661@xxxxxx

This may not be the right thread to post this question to but I am
absolutely convinced that this has happened before. That is, in my
Trash, there are over 17,000 files, many of which (like at least half)
I know were not intentionally deleted. This happened a long time ago,
well before I knew there was a forum and long before the recent
software update. Since there are thousands of files at issue, I have
kept them in Trash and have hoped I'd find them if I ever need them as
restoring them individually would be an absurd proposition.

I am not following how the p2p search solution would solve this as I
don't have any stray p2p files.

I'd be curious if someone on the FS team could respond to the
inquiries posted about the possibility of any kind of restoration
script, though I assume the answer to that is that it's not going to
happen or won't help with files moved to Trash under the current
programming as that original data location information may not be
present. It would also be nice to know if I'm completely crazy or if
this happened to anyone else prior to this latest software upgrade -
for whatever that information is actually worth I suppose.

Thanks very much,

Josh Kanter

On Dec 12, 1:16 pm, "Mohammed Samji [MSFT]"
<mohammed.sa...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Josh,

Having a great deal of files in your FolderShare trash folder is not usually
a cause for concern. A copy of any file that is deleted from your FS library
is automatically placed in the trash, and this includes any files that you
may have moved to a different location or renamed. Let's say you had a file
titled "file.doc" in your My Documents/FSlibrary/docs folder. If you renamed
it to "file2.doc," then the original "file.doc" would be copied to your trash
folder. Also, if you moved the file to another directory, like "My
Documents/FSlibrary/docs/new", then the original "file.doc" would also be
deleted in this situation.

In other words, most of these files in your trash are probably files that
you have either deleted, renamed, or moved over the course of the time you've
been running FolderShare. If you've been using the software for years and
have never emptied your trash folder, then it's not unlikely that most of
these files are no cause for concern.

I hope this was helpful!

-CaseyH

"altaskibum@xxxxxx" wrote: